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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
practice in the use of statistical, accounting, and financial analytic tools. A resident of Westwood, Massachusetts, Hayes sits on four corporate boards, chairs the investment committee at Swarthmore College (his alma mater), and is... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
People should think, "What are the to-dos, and who's going to do them?" Senior executives tend to think that they can accomplish this by just telling people what to do. But there's a big difference between assigning a task to be completed... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
is a big misconception a lot of people have. People assume that because, the United States, we have high school, college basketball, then it leads to the pros, that the same system is in effect pretty much throughout the world. Well,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to growing crops that offers a more... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
McArthur My son Joe, then four years old, approached the burlier of our two dinner guests. “Bet you don’t pillow fight.” This was odd. Joe was shy and didn’t usually approach strangers. “Bet I do,” John McArthur replied. He arched an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
successful entrepreneurs talked about with the authors. Learning to handle emotions, manage uncertainty, cope with technical complexity, and build long-term relationships are equally or even more important. This book spotlights eight big... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
this work,” says Roberts, “and nine out of ten will describe turning over logs and discovering things when they were little.” Four decades later, he’s still discovering nature, but on a global scale. Since his appointment in February 2005... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
is where we plan to make the first couple of units. Then we’re going to find a manufacturing facility so that we can build and deploy these, en masse, in Wyoming. Project Bison will be deployed over four major phases. In phase one—2023 to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
cascading wave of, I'll say, wealth. Which is the dream, is to elevate us beyond where we are. Hanna: Can you give me an example of someone who came to Andela and trained with you, and how it changed their life? Sulyman: I'll think of someone that spent View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
out on the big screen, he adds, those moments are often highly visual, with no lines of dialogue. Even then, however, Singer is putting words on the page to guide the filmmaking. “A script is a sales tool,” he says. “Movies are... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
actually after 8:30pm after my son goes to sleep. I have this golden three, four hours that is just so uninterrupted. I was not at the office, I was not distracted, I was at home and I could just be by myself and when it's quiet at night... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
in North America. Most recently they scaled part of the barren, rocky Andes between Chile and Argentina. The outdoors is their shared passion and where they feel most alive. It’s also their business. In 1998 Kim and Coup cofounded GoLite, a small but thriving company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
plans that our team could use to execute different projects; then I was able to choose a couple to pursue for my own interest,” recalls Naidoo, who also cites the need to immediately shed any sense of MBA “specialness.” “At Oxfam, there was no place for egos — only... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
gift is spotting “extreme talent.” “It doesn’t mean that you’re extraordinary at everything or even a big thing, but that you’re a really extraordinary—different in kind, not in degree—individual,” he says. “If you can build the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
fundamental behavior — how they read. Eager to earn its first revenues, E Ink searched to find a customer that could use an early form of the technology. In 1999, JCPenney placed an order for four displays for use in its shoe departments.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
“Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and by being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you should invest. You can make data-driven decisions, rather... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
intent is not to discover the next big idea,” Rangan says, “but to find models that business can use to engage with the base of the pyramid.” In December 2005, the GPP convened a three-day colloquium, “A Conference on Global Poverty:... View Details
- 30 May 2025
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Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
attractive for him,” says Vera. “It’s a great feeling to be able to put your own stamp on the culture of a company, if given the chance.” Asked how he responds when his team loses a game, Canales said he’s not too big into calling people... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details